Rules: explain why
Ready player one.
That has to be one of the cringiest movies I’ve seen, is tries so hard, too hard with it’s “WE LOVE YOU NERD, YOU’RE SO COOL FOR PLAYING GAMES AND GETTING THIS 80S REFERENCE” message and the whole “corporation bad, the people good” narrative seems written for toddlers… The fan service feels cheap and adds nothing to the story.
Finally, they trying to make the people believe that very attractive girl with a barely visible red tint spot on her face is “ugly”… Like wtf?
Yet it received decent reviews plus being one of the most successful movies of that year.
Anime. I just don’t get the appeal.
Anime is a medium. It’s like saying “American cartoon”, yeah like, which one? The Simpsons? ATLA?
At least give one title or something for people who don’t treat them as a genre.
American cartoon stinks! It’s nothing but booger jokes and nudity! /s
They’re just stories with a different set of tropes than what we typically see in the west.
And sometimes dragged on forever for no real reason other than to fill air time. Looking at you One Piece. Yuck.
My friend who never watches anime always goes on about the same point and I just have to laugh because there are maybe 2 shows matching that description out of 100 in a year.
Haha, yeah you caught me. I haven’t watched a lot of anime, but I do remember how I dreaded the bunch of fillers in the ones I watched before I detached completely from it, so I’m just being salty about it.
I like anime, but wont touch shounen with a ten foot pole. And that includes “American Anime”, which seems to almost exclusively be the shounen genre.
Western shows tend to fall into a similar pattern. A show will just keep getting dragged on longer then it should and end up tanking its popularity. How fucking long did Super Natural or Walking Dead last?
Have you seen Blood of Zeus or Castlevania?
Oh, you’re right, I’m being unfairly biased. I stopped watching Walking Dead precisely because it went on and on aimlessly, just like Westworld. lol
Have you watched non episodic anime? There’s a lot of Movie length anime out there often with more mature theming.
Akira was probably the first anime that put the medium on the map for me at all. The animated Ghost in the shell movie is also pretty good. And almost all of the Studio Ghibli films.
You could also try stuff like Cowboy Bebop or Serial Experiments Lain for episodic but still short works.
I mean, that’s not unique.
I’m looking at you Heroes 🤣
For me the appeal is “2D Animation is a genre I like, and outside of Cal-Art bullshit it’s basically dead in my home country.”
For me its mostly that with a bit of “this is a foreign film/show so some cultural references and formulas are entirely new to me!” excitement sprinkled in